I was recently reminded that when Victor Hugo published The Hunchback of Notre Dame in 1831, the Cathedral had fallen into dismal disrepair. His best-selling novel served to awaken readers around the world, along with Parisians, to the beauty and majesty of this neglected edifice, and they did something about it. It wasn’t countless letters or showing u…
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